Exceptional Czech monarchs

This book, by a popular author of history books for older children, introduces the queens of Bohemia, who were significantly different from the queens known from fairy tales. Although most of them did not come to the Bohemian royal court of their own free will, they became a source of support for their husbands in difficult times, used their family connections for the benefit of their new homeland, and one even did not hesitate to mount a horse at the head of the Bohemian soldiers.

You will learn, for example, not only when we had queens instead of duchesses, why Bohemian kings married foreign women and whether they all had to master the Czech language, but also how their coronations took place. From the private lives of the Bohemian queens, you might be interested to know why John of Luxembourg eventually prevented Elizabeth of Bohemia from interfering in his rule, why Sophia of Bavaria became a prisoner of her brother-in-law Sigismund, and how the only reigning woman on the Bohemian throne, Maria Theresa, fared. You will probably be surprised how the last Queen of Bohemia, Zita, coped with the loss of the crown after 1918.